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I’ve posted two updates today, so make sure to read the previous one if you haven’t already.

So what do you guys think about the whole phenomenon of dandelion children? My brother found it weird — not the phenomenon itself, but the fact that the people of Keol actually understood the gist of how it worked, instead of just going “whoa! A redhead! This child must be CURSED/ BLESSED/ [insert some other superstitious adjective]!” Which is a valid opinion considering how superstitious and un-scientific ancient societies were.

I gave him a spoiler-y explanation that I can’t really post in public at this time. But I would be more than happy to engage in a discussion about it, in the most un-spoiler-y manner possible! Any thoughts?

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awesome art as always. Is this comic somehow uploaded on Line’s Webtoon (the English version of Naver’s webtoon)? Just asking coz I would prefer to read there as they have apps for reading on tablet. You can download chapters and all that.

I thought you would have because you’re Korean and this comic is in webtoon format.

I used to upload the Korean version on Naver, but that’s the old version from before I went back and fixed a lot of stuff. I’m currently not uploading on LINE because the community there seems a little… downvote-happy? If it’s just the votes, that should be okay with me, but does the negativity also extend to the comments section? What is it like over there?

I think the comments section are like that because the majority of them are muggles (people that don’t make comic lol) so it’s more like customer-brand interactions going on, not like in creator-focused community like tapastic/inkblazers etc. I don’t really know how the community is in general because I only follow a small number of comics , mostly the famous ones Noblese, The Gamer, and some gag comics so the comments section are mostly positive. Actually I don’t really read comments much I usually just search for latest chapter
and download them for offline viewing lol.

Btw I think they’re going to compete directly with tapastic since their marketing effort recently focused on the US market. They even had a competition with a 50 grands prize plus becoming their featured (so I guess funded?) artist. Even hired D.J Coffman to draw a promotional comic for them.
It’s funny since the original point of tapastic was to bring Naver webtoon (mostly the webtoon movement, and some of the webtoons itself) to the US. now Naver itself are targeting the US market. And now tapastic acquired kokoatalk? (that another messaging app, I dunno if get the name right) so it’s a head to head battle between those two ( social+comic ). It’s quite interesting thing happening in the webcomic world nowadays :D

In a competitive art environment (like fimfiction for brony fanfic writers) where there would indeed a lot of downvoting, I still think your comic would thrive and receive little criticism. The quality of your work is much higher than what one normally expects of even an HQ webcomic. ouob

Sorry for poofing for a little bit, I got very sick and not typing as much during that time. In fact I was mostly sleeping. xD (All better now. ovo)
Your brother’s argument sounds valid! OVO I’d be interested to know how they know. And uh, I’m afraid to answer the question of what I think about Dandelion children, since I’d be forced to mention someone elses work and that’s a big no-no in most situations but um… okay, just know that a lot of great works that I like share similar constructs and great minds think alike etc. etc.! XD But yea, I’m already kind of familiar with this sorta concept of a “gate” whose nature allows it to transfer people even in the earliest stages of development to a womb, and I think it’s really neat. ouo One of my favorite series of novels of all time, the Twelve Kingdoms, also employs it- except that birth occurs differently in the other world [all beings are born from cocoon/eggs which grow on holy trees], so should the eggs be swept into a gate, the child will be planted in one of our world’s pregnant wombs instead. However, I don’t think the transfer can happen the other way around (AKA, taking a child -out- of a womb, as happens in Heart of Keol.) In Heart of Keol the ‘gate’ has so much more semblance of purpose/intent in its reach, it makes it way more sinister and mysterious >O;;;